Posted on 08/06/2012 3:57:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sounds like fun already ... the Tampa Bay Times released the names of some of the speakers slated for the RNC convention in Tampa later this month, and it looks to be a promising lineup. The Times reported that, as of now, it's unclear where these speakers are slotted, and the rest of the lineup--including the keynote speaker--remains unknown. Names so far include conservative powerhouses New Mexico Gov. Susanna Martinez and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Florida Gov. Rick Scott is also speaking.
Here's a portion of the Times report:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Sen. John McCain and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are among seven headline speakers announced today for the Republican National Convention in Tampa.The first look at featured speakers also includes South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez.
The keynote speaker and others will be named closer to the Aug. 27-30 event, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said in announcing the headliners, whom he called "some of our party's brightest stars, who have governed and led effectively and admirably in their respective roles."
So far, the lineup looks off to a fairly good start. Conservatives will definitely be represented well--both socially, with the inclusion of Mike Huckabee, and practically, with competent and current gubernatorial voices like Martinez and Haley--and Rice remains a popular figure in the GOP.
You said it
You have assumed that there are conservatives placing a higher value on getting rid of Obama than electing a Republican with less than Christlike pure conservative values.
That is not true. The only course acceptable is Christ like perfection and all else is unacceptable. The fact Obama and progressives win again is of no consequence since perfection, their self defined perfection, is not obtained.
There is also an element of vindictiveness. It is their way or the hiway, and if not their way, the hiway will be strewn with rocks and boulders and nails.
All this though will pass after the conventions and it becomes clear that there is but one possible course of salvation...... defeat Obama. There will be forth coming face saving revelations that permit a begrudging change of heart.
Oh Bert
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Have your temper tantrum you little child
In the event you have not noticed, the “lineup” includes three Tea Party supported leaders, so it is not like they cut us totally out.
Sarah is being quiet for a reason so maybe if you subscribe only to her then take a cue from her as well. I smell your coffee cooking and it will burn soon if you don’t turn it off.
I like Sarah just as much, and I would say even more than you, but recognition of simple reality is far better measure by the wise than the impulsive. The wise use it to their advantage and the impulsive are just left holding an empty bag.
The bottom line is that I trust her to make her own decisions and to map her own strategy, and she definitely has one. Bank on it. So, take your cues from her if you want to follow her, otherwise go join your loose cannon buddy with all the cute pre-formatted pictures and useless links that for some reason he/she feels is relevant to today’s reality.
IT IS WHAT IT IS.
- The Book of RINO, Chapter 5, verses 5-6. Can I hear an "AMEN!" people!
Speaking of "tantrums" and "children" and whatnot, I mean.
Your comment "Have your temper tantrum you little child"
shows contempt for conservatives.
And that is typical RomneyBOT backstabber behavior, is it not?
You can do better, Kaslin.
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Now, do I have your complete and undivided attention?
- The Book of RINO, Chapter 5, verses 5-6. Can I hear an "AMEN!" people!
"By his holy teeth and hair, we shall be healed! HALLELUJAH, brother!" ;)
They are nice arent they ???
IT IS WHAT IT IS
That's what the guy said last time they tried to sell me a second-hand car. He looked like Willard too...
Why would Rice be invited to speak? Is there any evidence she is a conservative, let alone a Republican?
Amen and bump to you Kaslin. Why would any conservative do anything to even slightly increase the chances of nobama winning?
Yes, Romney's not perfect. But he's a damn sight better than nobama.
We need to be concentrating our efforts on strengthening our majority in the House and securing a majority in the Senate. Then we'll have at least some control over the White House no matter who sits there, hopefully Romney.
"Those who can, do; those who cannot, whine and snivel like spanked spaniel puppies about it." ;)
What makes you think Mitt was "pulled to the left in Mass."? When Jane Swift (the former acting gov of MA) announced she wouldn't run, Mitt stepped in as the GOP candidate. I can only assume this was by arrangement -- whoever initiated it -- with the MA GOP. If Mitt had been conservative and declared a run in MA, the MA GOP would have recruited a liberal to run against him in a primary -- that's their MO! In fact, I was surprised the the MA GOP supported Scott Brown -- he's not conservative by FR standards, but he's more conservative than the MA party apparatus. Of course, there wasn't much time in that special election.
The MA GOP a few years back (before Mitt was in) toyed with the idea of putting a pro-abortion plank in the state GOP platform. Not sure why they didn't go through with it officially, but that's where their heart lies. In any case, this past year they announced they weren't going to take social issues into consideration; which really means of course "Social conservatives need not apply!"
It seems to me the national GOP (GOPe, if you will) is rushing headlong in the MA direction.
Straw man.
I don't know anybody who is seeking such a candidate, anywhere in America.
I do know many who do have non-negotiable lines of conscience that they will not cross for the sake of someone else's perception of political expedience.
Lines which involve the most fundamental principles upon which the survival of this free republic depend.
Lines that Romney has been on the wrong side of his entire adult life.
"You say that like it's actually a bad thing, or something!"
/Mittbots
Eh ???
This country is not Massachusetts and Massachusetts is not this country, thanks God.
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Like begets like. It’s one of the first laws of nature.
So, you’re fooling yourself if you think a party run by Mitt Romney is going to produce anything but more Romney Republicans.
I will not be voting 3rd party either there is not one with the old Republican platform. I will vote for conservative republicans down ticket but for the first time since Regan I will not vote for president...not because I do not want to defeat Obama but because the party has given me nobody in that slot to vote for.
They made that choice knowing full well they were crossing a line with a good portion of their base knowing full well what the consequences could be and I made that choice because there is a line I will not lower myself to cross. The party left me behind I did not leave the party....sound familiar?
The MA GOP a few years back (before Mitt was in) toyed with the idea of putting a pro-abortion plank in the state GOP platform. Not sure why they didn’t go through with it officially, but that’s where their heart lies.
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Willard wants to put one in the GOP Platform...
From the survey I got in the mail last week...
“Do you believe we should keep a strong pro-life plank in our platform? Yes No”
That the GOP would even consider tossing out the pro-life plank speaks volumes...
Willard’s liberal stance is influencing Republican politics and ideology already...
We had a really good example this year of how the Romney Republican Party will actually function.
Two years ago, powered by Tea Party energy, Utah Republicans, in convention, threw RINO incumbent Senator Bennett out on his rear.
This year, in a convention instead dominated by Romney forces, they couldn’t, or should I say wouldn’t, lay a finger on RINO Senator Hatch. And they pushed through virtually everything and everyone Romney wanted.
Your stated vision of how this could work is a complete illusion.
Wake up.
Instead of bitching you might want to read this article in Breitbart from August 2 by John Nolte
Palin in her own words speaking about the convention and her role if any from the John Nolte interview......... The part your quote cites begins about the 3:45 minute mark. Palin and other Tea Party members will support the nominee regardless of what you hear around here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvsewdIQ9GI&feature=player_embedded
Oh, AND CURRENT ..... Like Mike Huckabee ..... but not Sarah Palin because she's not "current" .... Oh, I get it.
See you in November, Mittens. Simpering buttwipe. Give us a call when you're up to standing up to the Chicago Boys.
BINGO.
RINO’s every one.
Your analysis of the political burden is correct. Don't let anybody guilt-trip you. Romney's the guy who has to mend fences, having done so much to insult conservatives and break those fences down.
Mr. RomneyCARE overthrew the Mass. Constitution
to impose his gay marraige, polygamy,
and used the Democrats to install his Judges
and his DEATH PANEL and ObamaCARE agendae.
Mr. RomneyCARE .... NO CONSERVATIVE WILL VOTE FOR HIM.
Mitt Romney wins much coveted Jimmy Carter endorsement
Gore Praises Romney's 'Climate Protection Plan'
Carville(D):
"It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing.
Romney is an ascendant guy."
Sen. John Kerry (D) to Don Imus on RomneyCARE:
"I like this health care bill".
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) on RomneyCARE:
"To come up with a bipartisan plan in this polarized environment is commendable."
George Soros Wants Mitt Romney
Screw Romney and the GOP-E he rode in on.
Tampa is going to be the biggest parade of RINOs in history.
These things aren't even real American political conventions in any true sense of the word any more.
They're much more like a Soviet propaganda show. It's all scripted to the nth degree.
Wake up.
You're wielding brute facts, in rebuttal against wish-casting and stubborn, sullen belief.
You can't reason someone out of something they were never reasoned INTO, ultimately. ;)
“No Palin.
Screw Romney and the GOP-E he rode in on. “
She wouldn’t be named to the speaker line up if Romney were going to name her as VP, would they? Now wouldn’t THAT be something?
That is the funnies and saddest post I have seen lately. What a mess the GOPe has gotten themselves into. They won’t learn as in 2016 they will put Bloomberg up and the FREEPERS will slobber all over him as they are Romney.
Same here. I won’t watch this circus.
Instead of bitching you might want to read this article in Breitbart from August 2 by John Nolte
One, he's not "bitching" and two, the article changes nothing except my opinion of the flexuousness of Sarah's stabbed-many-times-by-Romney-Judases backbone.
The article's only intelligence is that Sarah says she's willing to be a trouper, just like she was for McPain. She was stiffed from the speaker list -- THAT is the real deal.
Because Romney can't have a woman in that hall who's more man than he is. Period.
You will have it on your conscience
Balzac!
I once was persuaded to vote GOP solely for the purpose of conservative Supreme Court appointment. However after Roberts invented a new tax on inactivity that argument no longer works. I can not think of a single valid reason to vote GOPe any longer and will now NEVER EVER AGAIN vote GOPe.
The voters of Utah made the same stupid decision as did the voters of Arizona. They based it only on the idea that seniority will find a way. That is why I say, and I’ll say it again, vote conservative, down party. That is the only way. Anything else at this point and we have the Kenyan back again for four more. BTW,
Scott Walker
Ted Cruz
Fisher in Nebraska
Mandell in Ohio
Steelman or Brunner in Mo.
and more to come later.
But I suppose that doesn’t matter to you one horse trick shows who thinks the whole thing resides in the White House. Currently it does even as the Constitution says otherwise. Four more years of Obama and the Constitution as we know it will cease to exist.
Either we have a chance with weather vane Romney or we have a sure thing of Obama. That is your choice, that is our reality.
Given the party's remorseless (and suicidal) leftwards metamorphosis, post-Reagan -- Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain and (now) Mittens -- I fully expect them to go either with Jeb Bush, in order to fuel their inexplicable dynastic daydreams; or else simply toss the long-tattered "conservative" face masks aside, once and for all, and lunge headlong into full-bore Al Franken/Dennis Kucinich territory.
She wouldn’t be named to the speaker line up if Romney were going to name her as VP, would they?
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Ah yes they would dearie...
She was one of the main speakers in 2008...
And Willard is not gong to pick Governor Sarah Palin..
1) hes too liberal
2) shes too conservative
3) hes scared of her..
As Sarah herself said “Insecure men are afraid of strong women”
I see .... and are you planning on making that list available to Obama's goons anytime soon?
Lists now, is it?
I estimate about half the “I Heart Sarah” are subversives. I like a lot myslef, but the vitriol over every real or percieved slight towards her is way over the top.
Before reading the thread I predicted there would be a post about her within the first 3. Sure enough, it only took 2. And don’t defend Mitt or you might be banned from posting.
The instinctive, knee-jerk impulse towards a fascistic response is the universal trademark of hard-left politicians... and those who obligingly soldier in their stead.
If you are talking about Cruse, we shall see if he in fact is a real Tea Party conservative. I and many others voted for him because of Sara, but I have serious doubts about him. Hope I am wrong but he is already off the reservation with his Tea Party in Texas is all in for Romney comments. He probably had to say that but it certainly is not true.
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